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Please send one large hot dog costume to: Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court of the United States 1 First Street NE Washington, DC 20543

Concepts of a plan!

The Bari Weiss Gambit, but make it center-left

FWIW one of bluesky's superpowers imho - the brilliant legal community here. The live updates I get via my "Courtwatchers" list is better than any live blogging I ever read from SCOTUS Blog back in the day. Also if you want to build your own list here is a good start. YW. go.bsky.app/4oXpi4Q

Somebody give @lawdorknews.bsky.social @chrisgeidner.bsky.social the funding to start this

This would be a good year for some other outlet to start (1) a liveblog of SCOTUS decision days and (2) a user-friendly SCOTUS docket tracker. SCOTUSblog is a gatekeeper because they're the ones doing those things and the Court's own website is meh, but they should not be the gatekeeper anymore.

Guy who murdered his own daughter, spent a decade away at war, destroyed a city full of civilians, and got murdered by his wife upon return: aspirational?

Some say a Democratic senate majority should keep the filibuster. Others say a Republican president should be able to unilaterally start wars, raise taxes, cut appropriations, take bribes, prosecute opponents, shoot citizens, and attempt a violent coup. We must respect both sides.

Cutting money that provides food and health care but spending $300 million to permanently deploy the military to the streets of the capital in times of peace is tinpot dictator stuff

Selfish and contemptible as it is, it’s also incredibly shortsighted. No one, not even a trillionaire or a dictator, can opt out of living in a society.

AI isn’t going away and this isn’t its only purpose, but this clearly is the mindset of a critical mass of tech billionaires and the government they purchased

Omar Navarro, who pleaded guilty to embezzling $250k from his congressional campaign, says he was told he could get a Trump pardon if he paid $2m-$3m to a law firm. He won't say who told him this, because the person "is pretty powerful in the government … so I’m very scared to even say anything.”

Imagine thinking “what if the richest people have all the power” is a novel idea

The Odyssey is just a story about Oppenheimer's PTSD.

If everyone would just be more financially prudent...

In case the racist backlash weren’t dumb enough, Helen isn’t even a major character

Most interesting thing about Nolan’s Odyssey is what he’s saying about our capacity to commit horrible crimes that rend the fabric of civilization, but also to repent, rebuild, and become civilized again. Zendaya’s dual role really ties it all together.

“But what if he ignores the Constitution and Republican politicians back him up? What if the Supreme Court’s MAGA justices lie about the Constitution to serve their king?” You absolutely should worry about that! But you should also work to reinforce the social expectation that law—THIS law—is real.

Preemptively: the 12th Amendment says you’re not eligible to be VP if not eligible to be POTUS

There’s no creative lawyering to be done about this. There’s no “one weird trick we found in an old book”. None of it matters. Sky is blue, bear shits in the woods, Trump can’t get elected president a third time.